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The 10 Best Dressed Celebrities at Paris Fashion Week

In addition to being the source of next season's biggest trends, Paris fashion week is known for igniting slew of girl crushes and wardrobe heartbreaks. (i.e. Could Joan Smalls be any more beautiful? or Oh dear. If only those fab 18-karat Vuitton Lockit bags didn't cost as much as a used Prius.) It also happens to be a magnet for fashionable celebrities with PhDs in style, including these lovely ladies who managed to stand out from their fellow front rowers:

The week o' fashion only just wrapped up, oh, about two hours ago--can you tell I've been dying to discuss all these celebrity style moments with you? Without further ado...

The Happy-Go-Lucky Award: Emma Roberts at Chanel Emma's got what I like to call a "Chanel Face" on: it's the blissed-out, high-wattage smile women tend to flash whenever they have the pleasure of wearing Chanel. Doesn't that grin look like she's fallen head over CC-heels with her baby blue feather-trimmed party dress?

The Hubba-Hubba Award: Emma Stone at Louis Vuitton Maybe it's her sexy blonde 'do (or maybe it was because of the kinky, latex 'n' French maid-accented backdrop on the runway, but more on that one later) but Emma Stone did some serious vamping at this morning's Louis Vuitton show. We were into her femme fatale vibe, the contrasting LV dress and her gray heeled booties.

The Fastest Red Carpet Don't Recovery Award: Liv Tyler at Stella McCartney Liv had the unfortunate experience of turning up at the Givenchy show wearing the same outfit as Kanye West but quickly recovered from the wardrobe snafu by rolling into Stella McCartney's looking like the very definition of a hot mamma. A no-nonsense pleather pencil skirt, seriously pointy heels and varsity-style jacket? Wear that Stella outfit to a PTA meeting and they'll hand over the keys to the school.

The Cool Kid Award: VV Brown at Stella McCartney A few seats down from Liv sat 27 year-old British singer-songwriter, VV Brown who wore what looked to be the coolest, most comfortable and most stress-free outfit of all the fashion week front rowers. (Flats and practical oxford lace-ups? Doesn't get cushier than that unless you're in a pair of Uggs.) High-five, VV, high-five.

The Starlets Steal Paris Fashion Week Award: Mila Kunis, Hailee Steinfeld and Jennifer Lawrence, all at Miu Miu These fresh-from-the-Oscars-circuit PYTs earned a three-way tie for best dressed as they bold showing when they appeared en masse wearing sweet Miu Miu party dresses. (The show took place on the very last day of fashion week, making everyone wish that the actresses--and their darling sense of style--had been around all week long.)

The Ahead-of-the-Trend Award: Nicole Richie at Givenchy There were a lot of mod, swinging sixties references on the Paris runways for Fall 2011 and as per usual, Nicole Richie--with her cat-eye makeup, high-collar leather dress and major red carpet-ready heels--got in the game early.

The Americans In Paris Award: Hilary Rhoda and Jennifer Hudson at Michael Kors' 30th Anniversary / Store Opening Dinner Party Their sleek Michael Kors dresses were wardrobe equivalent of going into a local Parisian bistro and ordering up steak frites rare and a bottle of the house's finest Bordeaux all in perfect French: they helped build a good rep (and in this case, a chic one too!) for all Americans in Paris.

The It Girl of Paris Fashion Week Award: Florence Welch, everywhere Each season there's always one celebrity-on-the-rise who does a dozen costume changes and turns up at oodles of events and for Fall 2011 it was Florence Welch. She sang at the Chanel party Karl Lagerfeld hosted for Blake Lively, made an appearance at Givenchy and Giambattista Valli (among others) and she even brushed past me on Tuesday as I was window-shopping at Colette. With her signature red hair she was hard to miss, but it was her fashion sensibility--long, lean designer dresses that she made look as cool and casual as a t-shirt and jeans--that made the fashion crowd take note.

The Fashionista's Fashionista Award: Anna Dello Russo Including a what-they-wore fashion week without including Anna Dello Russo is like doing an Oscars recap without gushing about Anne Hathaway: it's just not done. Watching out for Anna in the front row to see what kind of decadence the editor-at-large for Vogue Japan and "fashion maniac" (Helmut Newton's words, not ours) has concocted for the day is the unofficial spectator sport of fashion week. Her enthusiasm for designers and trends--the more whimsical the better--is contagious, even if her fearlessness (a gilded cherry hat anyone?) and pocketbook are not. You've gotta admire her bravura.

Quite a week of celebrity style, huh? Whose outfit do you like best? Do you have a girl crush on any of the above A-listers? Would you use one of your three magic genie wishes on swapping closets with them? Dish away in the comments below!

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